Luxemburg campaigns for mass action and democratic suffrage

Research and lecture notes from her years at the party school examine social forms before and outside capitalism. These studies widened her historical scope beyond a Europe-only account of economic...

At the Stuttgart Socialist Congress she works with Lenin, Martov and others on a resolution calling workers to oppose war and use crisis to advance socialist change. The resolution later becomes a...

In a series of articles she argues against treating national self-determination as a universal socialist slogan and favors democratic autonomy within wider political structures. Her critique...

Her lecture course examines commodity production, industrialization and the effects of capitalism on non-capitalist social groups. Much of the manuscript remained unpublished in her lifetime, so later...

The series argues that national self-determination is not a universal formula capable of resolving workers’ political problems. It is a major intervention in socialist debates, but also a point of...

Luxemburg calls for mass action against Prussia’s unequal voting system, while Karl Kautsky and the SPD leadership favor a more cautious course. The conflict concerns strategy and political agency:...

In the context of German colonial and imperial rivalry, including the Morocco crises, she warns that leaders’ reluctance to confront imperialism encourages nationalist politics. Her criticism links...

In Women’s Suffrage and Class Struggle she presents voting rights as a democratic demand with particular importance for working women. Her approach situates women’s political exclusion within class...

At Stuttgart’s Second Social Democratic Women’s Rally, she argues that women’s suffrage is a working-class democratic demand. She criticizes social definitions of productive labor that render...

Luxemburg analyzes how capitalist expansion relies on access to non-capitalist social formations and territories, including through coercion, dispossession and militarism. The book offers a major...